Finally Wel­ling­ton gets its own MySpace Secret Show, and what a show it is – NZ’s own world-class, world-fam­ous, worldly-wise elec­tro rap­pers, mas­ters of the mel­low-drama and hip hop­era Coco Sol­id play for free at an as-yet-undis­closed Wel­ling­ton ven­ue (that’s the secret, duh) next Wed­nes­day (18th). They also have a psy­che­del­ic kal­eido­scope of a new video on their MySpace page for their new single ‘Elec­trik Love’; it’s made by Aleks Sakowski who also made the over­whelm­ingly bril­liant ‘Crime­fight­ers’ vid – which I feel com­pelled to include here as it’s my abso­lute fave and it wins people over like noth­ing else:

More Coco love, and details on how to get into the gig, after the jump:

Coco Sol­id are some­thing of an exten­ded fam­ily, reunit­ing for the first time since Erik Ulti­mate moved to Wel­ling­ton, leav­ing Coco & DJ Han Baby in Auck­land, and pro­du­cer ALC5 in Wan­ganui (incid­ent­ally, Al runs a ven­ue out of his Wan­ganui flat that’s seen loc­al and inter­na­tion­al acts jam into the lounge room with about 15 audi­ence mem­bers for some amaz­ing live shows).

There’s so much that could be said about the bril­liance of Coco and Erik’s lyr­ics, style, and the mas­tery of their audio-visu­al vis­ion, but really you just need to hear them (or bet­ter yet, see them) once and you’re hooked. There’s noth­ing quite like Coco croon­ing “you walk with a limp, like a cripple not a pimp – yeah, you’re jeal­ous” and oth­er such on-the-money killer obser­va­tions, to make you go ‘O SNAP’ and sing it to your­self all day. The girl is like the loc­al Larry Dav­id when it comes to socio-polit­ic­al awk­ward­ness dis­tilled into lyr­ic­al geni­us – for fur­ther proof, vis­it Auck­land’s blog site The Wire, where Coco has just star­ted to write her own blog.

Vis­it their Myspace page to hear tracks from the new double album, The Rad­ic­al Bad Attack, and befriend Secret Shows on MySpace to find out the secret ven­ue and get into the free gig.